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Gilbert Count of Brionne
d. 1040
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1040
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Gilbert of Brionne was one of the guardians of the boy who became William the Conqueror, and he was murdered in the anarchy of the young duke's minority; his sons fled to found, in England, the mighty house of Clare.
Research notes
GILBERT, Count of BRIONNE and EU (d.1040); father of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare (our line). Standard well-documented medieval royal/comital genealogy per the cited authorities; contested rungs note-only, not hardened.